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Project Mercury

space Maturity 7-9

People wanted to fly to space.

Project Mercury-Mercury Seven-Astronauts.jpg
Project Mercury-Mercury Seven-Astronauts.jpg
They built small ships for this. One person sat inside each ship. The ships had food and air. They landed in the blue sea.
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Mercury-splash-down.png
It was a big job! Can you imagine flying in space?

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Project Mercury logo.svg
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Technicians working in the McDonnell...
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Mercury-launch-vehicles.png
File:Project Mercury-Mercury Seven-Astronauts.jpg
Project Mercury-Mercury Seven-Astronauts.jpg
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Mr3-flight-timeline-simple-2.png
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Launch-complex-14.png
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Vol-Atlas-Mercury.png
File:Mercury Control crop.jpg
Mercury Control crop.jpg
File:Mercury-splash-down.png
Mercury-splash-down.png
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City locator 23.svg
File:Jupiter_atlas_redstone_rockets_comparison.jpg
Jupiter_atlas_redstone_rockets_comparison.jpg

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